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My clients will frequently say to me, "I don't understand why I'm so nervous. There must be something wrong with me." Well, if it's wrong to be human, I guess we all have something wrong with us! What we forget is that, while we are indeed human, we are also animals. Human animals, but still animals.

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When you have a big presentation coming up, do you say to yourself: “I must be knowledgeable.” ” “I must be the expert on this topic.” ” “I must be able to answer every question.” ” The problem with these statements. The first is the use of the word “must” This makes them into a demand – something that you must achieve. And demanding that you achieve something is likely to increase your nervousness.

When someone says they are a singer what do they mean? Do they sing in the shower? Perform on stage six nights a week? Or, do they just get lots of applause on Karaoke night at their favorite hangout? What if they said they were a trapeze artist?…

For anyone with even a passing interest in executive communications in Silicon Valley, Bad Blood is a must read. Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou delivers a step-by-step history of Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup headed by the young, charismatic founder and Stanford drop-out Elizabeth Holmes. He has written a masterful, suspenseful tale of […]. Business Communication Theranos

The combination of longevity and the need to fund living all those years is creating a new phenomenon: returning to school to pick up an academic degree, at age 50 and beyond. The question MarketWatch raises is if that is a wise investment of money and time.

Projecting your data on slides puts you at an immediate disadvantage: When you’re giving a presentation, people can’t pull the numbers in for a closer look or take as much time to examine them as they can with a report or a white paper. That’s why you need to direct their attention. What do you [.]

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For anyone with even a passing interest in executive communications in Silicon Valley, Bad Blood is a must read. Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou delivers a step-by-step history of Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup headed by the young, charismatic founder and Stanford drop-out Elizabeth Holmes. He has written a masterful, suspenseful tale of […]. Business Communication Theranos

The combination of longevity and the need to fund living all those years is creating a new phenomenon: returning to school to pick up an academic degree, at age 50 and beyond. The question MarketWatch raises is if that is a wise investment of money and time.

Projecting your data on slides puts you at an immediate disadvantage: When you’re giving a presentation, people can’t pull the numbers in for a closer look or take as much time to examine them as they can with a report or a white paper. That’s why you need to direct their attention. What do you [.]

Today, The Wealthy Speaker Podcast is being brought to you by The Wealthy Speaker Book Bundle. Do you have the right tools to build the speaking business of your dreams? This bundle includes The Wealthy Speaker Daily Success Planner and Journal, plus The Wealthy Speaker 2.0 as well as a 3-part video series on […]. The post Engaging your Audience in The Epic Keynote with Sarah Hilton appeared first on Jane Atkinson.

As James Anderson (left) said after he and Stuart Broad (right) had skittled India out twice in quick succession in the second Test match at Lords: "We would have bowled out any team under these conditions." He didn't say that even pace bowlers as old as Broad and me were able to dismiss the best team in the world in next to no time."

In the 1990’s, I worked for a company that changed its dress code. We went from business formal to business casual. Employees accepted this change readily. I felt like I got a raise, because my dry cleaning expenses almost disappeared. And the comfort of ditching a suit for the dark jeans, tee-shirt, and blazer combo? Last year, I read about a relaxed dress code at Goldman Sachs. In the same year, I heard the controversy over bare arms. The buzz about “well, what do I wear now?”

I just celebrated the 13 year anniversary of having my own business and what’s funny is that I’m still learning the lessons in year 13 that I learned in year one. After all this time, I still need to sharpen my wrong fit client detector. What that means is that I need to recognize when […]. The post The Cost of a Wrong Fit Client appeared first on Jane Atkinson.

The thing about public speaking skills is that once you have them, they can be applied just about anywhere. No matter who you are or what career you have. At its heart, communication is the art of sharing ideas, and public speaking is the art of communicating with many people at once.…

It's 10 years since I started blogging - at the suggestion of journalist Michael Crick, then of BBC's Newsnight, now at Channel 4 News. It became such a regular obsession that a selection of my blogs was published in my most recent book, Seen and Heard, after which the rate of posting now blogs dwindled for a variety of reasons. Recently, however, I've been updating (i.e.

According to the Labor Department, consumer prices rose 2.9% during the past year, reports The Wall Street Journal. Obviously, inflation's back. And that has dire implications for anyone considering traditional retirement - that is, stopping working completely.

How does someone rise to the leadership rank of Air Force Brig. General and not understand the separation of church and state? That's the puzzling question. The issue is that such a man at Edwards Air Force Base - E. John Teichert - set up a very strange website.

A new wrinkle in gender discrimination litigation against law firms is that the plaintiff gets to stay on. As we recall with Kerrie Campbell, she got the boot at her law firm Chadbourne after she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit. Here is the coverage by Abovethelaw.com.

This article in MarketWatch , by Chris Farrell, takes a new angle on the cliché-ridden subject of funding retirement: It grimly warns those intending to retire that a recession could be coming (recessions always come, don't they) so.

It's usually the play out of the Pareto Principle (80% of revenue comes for 20% of the business) that working with smart clients generates the most income. So, part of identifying that 20% of the potential client pool is determining who are the smart ones.

A toner cartridge for my Brother printer goes for about $53 bucks in Best Buy, in the Boardman, Ohio mall. At the nearby Office Max the cost is $74+, but not the $75 which makes it eligible for a Rewards discount. The latter is enough by itself to leave me with a bad taste in my mouth for Office Max.

Cleaning houses is a niche in the labor market that is growing at about 6% (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics). The field is attractive because there are no barriers to entry. Any entrepreneurial person can pick up assignments through word of mouth or can purchase a franchise.

During the next 36 months, projects the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loan debt will explode to $2 trillion. That represents a 30% increases from the current $1.54 trillion debt. Here are more details in the New York Post.

The stereotype of the gig economy is that contract workers grab whatever assignments they can. And, that's exactly the wrong way to earn a good living through contract work. Unfortunately, for those gig economy participants who believe that there's little opportunity.

One very hot morning - it was 10 AM and already boiling on planet earth - I had had it. A professional acquaintance was at it again: On Facebook, he had posted yet another expression, in photo and narrative, of how much he loved his wife. I clicked Unfriend.

There will be much speculation why Richard B. Russell poached a plane at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. But it is likely that not even he really understood what was motivating him. It seemed he was trying to sort that out while he was flying.

What did the wife of Bernie Madoff - Ruth Madoff - know and when did she know it? Likely, law enforcement, the media, and the general public will never find out the answer to that. She, who now goes by her maiden name "Alpern," remains tight-lipped.

Conde Nast used to be an influential brandname in magazine publishing. And because of the investigative publishing by The New Yorker, parts of the empire can still have reach. Overall, though, it struggles, almost cartoonishly, for relevance - and profits.

IBM positioned and packaged Watson, an artificial intelligence (AI) system, as a branding strategy. The old-line corporation wanted to be perceived as an equal to newer players in the tech box. Recently, reports The Wall Street Journa l, that has hit a wall.

In some circles, Dennis Shields was best known as a sometimes boyfriend of Bethenny Frankel. In others, he was infamous for being the chief executive officer of LawCash. That is a kind of litigation financing - with a specific niche: lawsuits against New York City.

There was a time before Facebook. There really was. The platform for sharing family trivia and photos was the annual Christmas letter, sent snail mail. All too frequently, that communication went to those like myself who didn't gave a damn about all that: that is, family joy.

It's been years since television series "Without a Trace" was in production. Like all recent popular broadcast, it focused on a heavily flawed character. That was shut-down FBI special agent Jack Malone , played by Anthony LaPaglia.

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